Surgeons Net is an educational resource for surgeons. It's here that I'll make announcements about that website, but also write about any interesting developments in Surgery or useful snippets of information about IT. May also use it for a general rant about the NHS!

Thursday, 24 January 2008

This is nothing to do with surgery, but rather acting as an aide memoir for me:

After installing vmware tools in a linux guest it is nice for the tool box to start automatically. The way to do this is to add vmware-toolbox to the start-up application list usually found under Program->Settings->Sessions.

Note that the usage string for vmware-toolbox lists --inconify as the option which is spelt wrong and doesn't work.

Better still the application can be minimized to the system tray using a little app called alltray. Alltray is in the universe repo for gutsy ubuntu and is installed with 'sudo apt-get install alltray' or go to http://alltray.sourceforge.net/

Then modify the above to: alltray /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox --iconifyto get vmware-toolbox auto started and minimised to the systray.